Which is what makes Michael Strauss' new translation remarkable. Unlike the other "wooden" translations most of us are accustomed to, The Book of Revelation weaves Handel's Messiah together with words and concepts from a variety of languages -- Spanish, Italian, French and Greek -- to create a fresh hearing for the biblical text.
And Strauss has removed all the artificial devices that keep modern readers from reading the narrative in the way first century readers would have heard this text. Gone are the chapter and verse divisions. And the artwork only adds to the apocryphal feel.
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